The Snow Tribes

When the Seven Southern Halls fell, the Dwarves within were forced into diaspora, wandering across the realms of humans with few other places to call home. This was not the case for the Three Northern Halls, which had fallen to the Dark Elven incursion more than two thousand years ago. These Dwarves fled across Boreius to populate the northern continent’s frozen shores in hopes of eking out a living. Many died without the warmth of their stone halls, but over time they have adapted to a far more tribal and decentralized lifestyle than their southern cousins. Today, the coastline of Boreius not within the hands of the Dark Elves themselves is dotted by tribal settlements of Dwarves, who subsist off fishing and whale hunting in the Iceclaw Straits.
Though they are the last ‘independent’ Dwarves, there is no central state that governs the Snow Tribes, besides small confederations of villages. The villages themselves are simple societies that often lack stratified hierarchies for the most part, the old traditions of Jarls and their courts dying with the Halls themselves. Nonetheless, with their knowledge of old magic and mastery over the frozen landscape, they have managed to keep themselves free over the centuries. While the Halls of the North have long since fallen, the Snow Tribes still carry them in their memories, and some even still identify with them. These halls were Thag Thorim (Dhomor), Nirlodahr (Druth), and Hemria (Aransa).
For more detail, See: History of the Dwarven Halls.

Type

Political, Confederation